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Median total household income among all farm households ($68,298) exceeded the median for all U.S. households ($51,017) in 2012. More than half of U.S. farms are very small, with annual sales under $10,000; the households operating these farms typically draw all of their income from off-farm sources. Median household income and income from farming increase with farm size; the typical household operating the largest commercial farms earned about $426,755 in 2012, and most of that came from farming.